Rent a book on your Kindle?

According to The Telegraph, Amazon is currently in talks with publishers to launch a digital book rental service similar to Netflix. For an annual fee readers will have access to a huge number of ebooks.  Sounds like another nail in the coffin for both the traditional printed book and the library service as we know it….

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  1. Well as a person who works in a library and who loves her Kindle I am hoping that the scheme takes off and that libraries survive. Libraries are still free and this will only be good for people with eReaders/Kindles. The library service I work for does already loan eBooks for free to members…

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